Iran’s Guards seize vessel carrying 11 million liters of smuggled fuel in Gulf

TEHRAN, 01 November 2022, (TON): Local media said “Iranian naval forces have seized a foreign-registered ship they said was smuggling fuel in the Gulf and arrested its crew.”

Mojtaba Ghahremani, the judiciary chief for Hormozgan province said “the navy of the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps has seized a foreign tanker carrying 11 million liters of smuggled fuel.”

It is not known when the vessel was seized, or what flag it sailed under.

In recent months Iran has announced several operations targeting fuel smuggling in the Gulf, where a large amount of the world’s oil is produced and shipped.

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